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only given night and morning- r Take of senna, three ounces, 

 salt of tartar half an ounce, infuse in a quart of boiling water : 

 in an hour or two add four ounces of glauber salts, with two 

 ounces of honey. If the symptoms do not abate, the only thing 

 to be depended on is a strong decoction of jusuitsbark, given to 

 the quantity of a pint every Ihree hours, with halfa pint of port 

 wine. — Carver. 



BoT WORMS.— This insect often proves very fatal to horses, 

 and is produced by an insect somewhat resembling a bee in its 

 head and neck, which in the summer months is almost ccn- 

 stantly flymg about horses, and in the course of a few weeks 

 will fill their hair, particularly about the breast and legs, with 

 a great number of its nits. It is an easy matter to scrape the 

 nits off from the horse, about once a week, in the months of 

 September and October ; and a horse that is so served, it i« 

 believed, will never be troubled with the bots. If the lips oi 

 tongue of the horse, covered with warm silva, come in contact 

 with the nit, the hot immediately leaves the nit and adheres to 

 the tongue, and is swallowed with the food of the horse. It s 

 often difficult, sometimes impossible, to dislodge the bots from 

 the bowels of the horse, or to compel them to loose their hold 

 from the maw\ It is therefore important to take much 

 pains to prevent their being taken into the stomach, by the 

 means above prescribed. Whenever a horse itches in any 

 part, he applies his teeth for the purpose of scratching; in do- 

 ing this he loosens some of the nits, and they are received into 

 his mouth, from whence tliey pass with his food into the stom- 

 ach, and from these the bot is produced. To kill bots in a 

 horse, pour a quart of rum down his throat: this will make 

 them loose their hold of the nmw, and they will be carried off 

 with its contents. Repeat th*^ dose as often as may be found 

 necessary. A few doses of linseed oil, about a pint each time, 

 will also quickly effect a cure. When these cannot be pro- 

 cured in season, a table spoonful of the powder of the blue 

 flagg root, in a fresh state, given to a horse, will frequently ex- 

 pel a great number of the bots from his bowels. If the nits of 

 a horse are scraped off about once a week, in the months of 

 September and October, it is said a horse Vv'ill never be troub- 

 led with the bots. Every attention necessary to dislodge the 

 nits, from the horse, and thereby prevent the disease, should bel 

 attended to : for it is often very difficult and sometimes impossibc 

 with any medicine to dislodge the bot from the maw of the bowel « 



False quarter, is- a cleft or chink in the hoof of a horse 

 ^romto top bottom. The inner side of the hoof being the thin- 

 aest is most liable to it. When it becomes troublesome to a 



